Metalogix Announces New Solution to Migrate Blogs to SharePoint 2010 - Free to Microsoft MVPs

WALTHAM, Mass., Feb. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Metalogix Software, a leading provider of solutions for Microsoft SharePoint migration, management, and archiving as well as Exchange® migration and archiving, today announced Metalogix Migration Manager for Blogs.

The Metalogix Migration Manager for Blogs is another component of Metalogix's comprehensive strategy for migrating more Enterprise Content Management (ECM) systems than any other vendor into SharePoint 2007 or 2010 both on premises and when part of the Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS). Metalogix also simplifies migrating content from Oracle Content Server, EMC Documentum eRoom, and Microsoft Content Management Server (MCMS) 2002 to SharePoint.

"Some of the biggest areas of interest for SharePoint 2010 are the blogs and social features," said Chris O'Brien, SharePoint MVP. "In the past, the challenges around migrating content from external blog platforms have been a significant deterrent to adopting SharePoint. With Metalogix Migration Manager for Blogs the community will be in a great position to take advantage of the blogging capabilities of SharePoint 2010. The ability to preserve comments and categories is huge!"

Metalogix Migration Manager for Blogs allows users to move blogs from Google Blogger, WordPress, Telligent and many other popular blogging systems into SharePoint 2010. The tool preserves content, comments and categories and features a tree-based user interface with copy-and-paste functions similar to the familiar Windows File Explorer.

"Metalogix Migration Manager for Blogs allows users to adopt SharePoint's social publishing features with just a few clicks. We expect that by giving this solution to the MVP community we can help the thought leaders in the SharePoint space take advantage of what SharePoint 2010 has to offer," said Chris Risley, CEO, Metalogix. "The ability to standardize on SharePoint as a blogging platform has real value to organizations that want to foster improved user interaction and productivity. Integrated search along with enterprise metadata means users can not only create content easily but find it and collaborate on it as well."

The Metalogix solution migrates content from any blogging solution that supports the Metaweblog API, RSS or ATOM. Blog posts, comments, and categories are preserved and users can be mapped. When migrating a blog from SharePoint 2007, it preserves version histories and user permissions as well. SharePoint administrators can perform migration activities remotely from any client machine and batch migration operations to run at any time. Migration is performed through the supported SharePoint and Blog APIs to assure compliance and data integrity.

Metalogix is offering the Migration Manager for Blogs free to all Microsoft MVPs. The solution will be demonstrated at 12:00 p.m. pacific time, today, during the 2010 Microsoft MVP Global Summit at Microsoft's corporate headquarters in Redmond, Washington. It will show Microsoft MVPs the migration of an MVP's blog from Blogger.com and the Microsoft SharePoint Team Blog to a SharePoint 2010 Server. Metalogix will also be sponsoring an "experimental server" to which each MVP can migrate his/her blog to test and refine it on the SharePoint 2010 platform. The Microsoft 2010 MVP Global Summit is hosting 1,300 of the world's top leaders from the technical community for the four-day conference. The MVPs represent 96 countries, speak 37 different languages and span 94 Microsoft technology areas.

Metalogix is the innovation leader in SharePoint migration solutions, which empower organizations to securely and automatically migrate more ECM systems than any other vendor into SharePoint 2007 and 2010, both on premises and when part of BPOS. More than 2500 customers have migrated to SharePoint using Metalogix products.

For more information or to download a free trial, please visit: http://www.metalogix.net/Products/Migration-Manager-for-Blogs.

About Metalogix Software

Metalogix Software delivers award-winning content migration, management and archiving software that enables organizations to migrate, manage, archive and recover enterprise content to ensure availability, regulatory compliance, efficiency and cost effectiveness. It supports its more than 5,000 customers worldwide from seven office locations; Boston and Dallas (US), Vancouver and Halifax (Canada) London (UK), Bratislava (Slovakia), and Schaffhausen (Switzerland). Originally founded in 2001, Metalogix of Canada merged with the archiving business of H & S Software in 2008. Profitable and privately held, Metalogix's investors include Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. Metalogix is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.

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